{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-artist-js","path":"/artists/lillenas-haldor-604c5514c6056300156933cd","result":{"data":{"strapiArtist":{"name":"Lillenas, Haldor","bio":"Born: No­vem­ber 19, 1885, Stord Is­land (near Ber­gen), Nor­way.\nDied: Au­gust 18, 1959, As­pen, Co­lo­ra­do.\nBuried: Flor­al Hills Cem­e­te­ry, Kan­sas Ci­ty, Mis­so­uri.\n\nPseudonyms--\nVir­gin­ia Rose Gold­en\nLaverne Gray\nRichard Hainsworth\nRev. H. N. Lines\nRobert Whitmore\nFerne Winters\n\nLillenas em­i­grat­ed to Amer­i­ca as a child; his fam­i­ly set­tled first in South Da­ko­ta, then moved to Or­e­gon in 1889. He at­tend­ed Deets Pa­ci­fic Bi­ble Coll­ege in Los An­ge­les, Cal­i­for­nia (later re­named to Pa­sa­de­na Coll­ege); stu­died mu­sic at the Sie­gel-My­ers School of Mu­sic in Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois; and re­ceived an hon­or­ary Doc­tor of Mu­sic de­gree from Ol­i­vet Na­za­rene Coll­ege. His first pas­tor­ate was in Lom­poc, Cal­i­for­nia, in 1910; he lat­er pas­tored in Redlands, Cal­i­for­nia, and In­dianapolis, In­diana. In 1924, he found­ed the Lil­le­nas Mu­sic Com­pa­ny (bought by the Na­za­rene Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny in 1930), and worked as an ed­it­or there un­til his re­tire­ment in 1950.\nHaldor mar­ried Ber­tha Mae Wil­son, a song­writ­er like him­self. He and Ber­tha were el­ders in the Church of the Na­za­rene. Hal­dor tra­veled as an evan­gel­ist, then pas­tored sev­er­al church­es, 1914-1924. In his life­time, he wrote some 4,000 hymns, and sup­plied songs for ma­ny evan­gel­ists. His works in­clude:\nSpecial Sac­red Songs, 1919\nNew Sac­red Songs\nStrains of Love\nSpecial Sac­red Songs No. 2\n\nSources:\nHustad, p. 273\nSchwanz, pp. 69-76\n\nhttp://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/l/i/l/lillenas_h.htm","externalUrl":null,"songs":[{"id":"604c5866c6056300156933cf","title":"Wonderful grace of Jesus","pubyear":1918},{"id":"617ec96f166d6600150ade79","title":"It is glory just to walk with him","pubyear":1918}],"lyrics":[{"id":"604c5866c6056300156933cf","title":"Wonderful grace of Jesus","pubyear":1918}],"translations":[],"picture":{"childImageSharp":{"fixed":{"src":"/static/f90f846ff9eb835702ed470d02756872/76539/34ebfb9a4b4d276b02c336477a75dc92.jpg"}}}}},"pageContext":{"id":"604c5514c6056300156933cd"}}}